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April 25, 1950 H. E. GOLDSTEIN GARMENT Filed March 26, 1949.

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INVENTOR. HOWARD E GOLDSTEI N ATTORNEYS Patented Apr. 25, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GARMENT Howard E. Goldstein, Minneapolis, Minn. I Application March 26, 1949, Serial No. 83,593

This invention relates to improved outer gar-' ments particularly adapted for children to afford protection in cold the snow.

It is an object of my present invention to provide a combination garment embodying at least weather or while playing in a bib or front-covering portion and a trousers portion, so constructed that the garment may be very quickly and easily put on ortaken oif.

More specifically, it is an object to provide an "outdoor protection garment embodying a front section which extends from the neck or a position at the top of the chest, downwardly to the lower portions of the trouser legs and wherein this section may be released at its outer longitudinal edges throughout the entire length thereof so that the garment may be put on like a 'coat, brought about the ankles and closed at its front 1 by slide fasteners or other conventional fastenin tudinal side edges of the balance of the garment,

at the sides of the front, by slide fasteners or other fasteners and having simple but efficient underlying tabs with attachment elements for positively closing the top of the front of thegarment to protect the wearer and prevent accidental openingof the fasteners and to hold the section in place while securing the fasteners.

This invention is an improvement in certain respects, upon the structure disclosed in Wallace Patent No. 1,973,421, granted September 11, 1934,

and assigned, to my company It offers a more economical structure, serving most of the purposes of the Wallace structure without requiring overlapping of flap portions or protection structure.

The foregoing and other objects will be apreinforcing chest parent from the following description made in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein like reference characters refer to similar parts throughout theseveralviews and in which:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a snow suit embodying my invention, showing the garment closed as it is worn in use; Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing in full lines one of the slide fasteners partially opened with the neck-closing elements unsnapped at one of the longitudinal edges of the front section and with the adjacent inner, upper longitudinal edge of the garment vfolded back to show the snap iastenerelement attached to the inner side there- 2 Claims. (Cl. 2-80) 2 of, the dotted lines indicating the position of the front section when partially opened;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary plan view taken from the rear or inside of the upper portion of the front section cut away and Fig. 4 is a front elevation of a combination suspender trousers and big top garment, embodying my invention, showing the front section closed with some portions broken away.

Referring now to the form of the invention 'shown in Figs. 1 to 3, I provide a snow suit embodying a combined coat and trousers having the back, sleeves and collar -6 of conventiona1 construction. The front of the garment comprises longitudinally disposed, relatively narrow side portions 1 which extend from the neck line or top of the garment downwardly in diverging spaced relation and which may be longitudinally connected at their side edges with the rear of the garment and which as shown, merge into the rear trouser sections of the garment. The upper ends of side portions or sections I may be stitched to the upper ends of the back portions across the shoulder line and leave a sleeve opening at each side :of the garment for securing the conventional sleeve 8 thereto. The collar 6 is attached by stitching circumferentially to the back and sid sections 1, at the upper edges thereof. The'central front portion of the garment comprises an inverted V-shaped section 9, complementary shaped to the opening formed between the longitudinal edges of th front side sections 1 and extending from the front top of the garment or neckline, the full length of the garment and being bifurcated at th lower portion thereof, to form front trouser sections 9a. Trouser sec- ;tions So, at their inner longitudinal edges, are

stitched to the inner longitudinal edges of the back section of the trousers.

It will of course, be understood that the large, releasable front section 9 may be integrally formed or may as shown, constitute an upper triangular section for covering the central abdominal and chest portion of the wearer and a pair of generally oblong sections 9a, stitched to the upper triangular section at approximately the waist line or thereabouts and also, stitched together along a vertical line 9b at the central front portion of the garment. The releasable. over-all front section 9, as shown, extends at its longitudinal edges to the lower ends of the trouser portions proper and conventional slide fasteners at each side of the front section 9 releasably secure the longitudinal edges of the front section to the inner longitudinal edges of the spaced longitudinal side sections, a fastening element on each of said lateral portions and a cooperating fastening element on each of said adjacent side sections for engaging the respective first mentioned fastening element whereby the top of the garment may be closed and held in place while securing the fasteners between said inverted V-shaped front and side sections.

2. An outdoor garment embodying a combined trousers and chest-covering portion split along lines diverging longitudinally from the'top front of the garment downwardly along the trousers legs, leaving longitudinal front garment sections and defining a front opening extending substantially the full length of the garment, a mating or complementarily shaped inverted V-shaped front section for closing the front opening, cooperating fastener elements along the edges of the inverted V-shaped section and said longitudinal sections for securing the corresponding edges of 20 REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,973,421 Wallace Sept. 11, 1934 2,283,362 Hamilton May 19, 1942 

